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In Reply to: which do you have more money invested in, gear or music? posted by oymo on February 25, 2007 at 14:48:59:
Although I have thousands of CDs and thousands of LPs, my wife likes to point out from time to time that I just keep listening to only about a handful of albums most of the time. And it's true, there are only about 15 to 20 albums that I absolutely CANNOT live without. Several of the albums puts me to tears every time I listen to them, and the others just puts me in a better mood when I am down, while others just take me to another place altogether.The older I get (I'm only 36), the less I subscribe to the thinking that if you like music, you have to have a lot of it. And I know several people that would go through albums and only keep the ones (maybe 1 in 50) that really "speak" to them. So they have a very small music collection, but each of their systems is worth over $100K. Does that mean they are less a music lover than the rest of us?
I mean, what is the true definition of a music lover? Does it mean that the person has to love (or own) tons of (and all kinds of) music, or subscribe to the view that he needs to keep on exploring new music all the time. And the time he stops exploring new music, then he is no longer a music lover? What if someone only has, in his possession, a handful of albums that he truly enjoys, and wants to have the best system to maximize his experience listening to those handful of albums?
Just some random thoughts on this rainy afternoon where work is slow.
FrankC
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what are the albums on your repeat list?
Norah Jones: Come Away With Me
Tsai Chin: Chance Encounter (Taiwanese)
Yo-Yo Ma: Solo
Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
Getz/Gilberto
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus
Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder
Hank Mobley: The Soul Station
Jane Monheit: In The Sun
Holly Cole: The Best Of Holly Cole
Harry Connick Jr: Soundtrack to When Harry Met Sally
Pet Shop Boys: Bilingual, Night Life, Fundamental
Diana Krall: Love ScenesNot in any particular oder. But my wife notices that I always seem to be playing one of these albums. And when I audition gear, several of these CDs/LPs would always be included in the stash.
Who would you envy more...The person who has hundreds of CD's and is always searching for more or the person who only has one album with no desire to search for what he has already found.
I'd agree with you I don't subscribe to that view either.
take care,
dan
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enjoy the music!
I want that album - the one I'm listening to - to sound as good as I can get it to sound. I think that in fact does great service to the music, especially when engaging in active listening.Here's what I had to say about it a couple of years ago:
I've got a modest collection of ~400 CDs and a two-channel system that cost twice what I've invested in software. It doesn't bother me that the ratio is tipped in favor of the gear I play the music on, precisely because the music has primacy. The human capacity for music astonishes me; it deserves to be heard on the best system one can get his or her hands on. I find it difficult to place a dollar value on the experience. That's not to say I don't weigh carefully the 'value' of a piece of gear, jsut that the value of piece of gear isn't monetary alone. To that end, I find it worthwhile to seek out the gear that satisfies my need. The trick is to be satisfied once you've achieved it, or at least to engage in the 'not better or worse, just different' approach to the gear. I think you're right that judgement often slips in where assessment is better deserved.
Cheers.
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I'm only anti-work,
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The amount of money spent onthe two aspects is done differently.
LPs and CDs are, more or less, bought one at a time. You don't go and buy 100 or 1000 CDs in one hit unless your collection has been stolen and you have an insurance settlement.
So the amount invested tends to increase slowly across time.
The amount spent on a system is proportional to your wealth, within limits.
If I suddenly inherited $100 million dollars, I might go and buy a $100,000 system. But I wouldn't go and buy $100,000 of discs.
This, although I used to enjoy this sort of discussion, is actually meaningless.
If you had a more expensive system, would you spend more on cheese?
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